Consultant - Distribution Planning Engineer - DER

**Description**

As a **Distribution Planning Engineer** focused on **DER** integration, you'll be at the forefront of evaluating, enabling, and managing the safe and reliable interconnection of DER across the power distribution system. You'll perform essential hosting capacity, protection, power flow, and voltage studies to assess DER impacts, identify system constraints, and recommend effective mitigation strategies. As a technical lead, you’ll oversee the quality and accuracy of modeling, study assumptions, and engineering deliverables across DER projects. You'll collaborate closely with internal teams, such as the transmission, substation, distribution design, and SCADA automation teams, to ensure seamless integration and efficiency. In this position, you’ll manage project schedules, develop processes, coordinate cross-functional inputs, and ensure key milestones are met while mentoring less experienced engineers and providing direction that strengthens technical capabi...